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Updated: June 29, 2025
James Macdonald, now of Reay in Caithness, tells us that in his boyhood when he was fishing with companions about Loch Aline and they had had no bites for a long time, they used to make a pretence of throwing one of their fellows overboard and hauling him out of the water, as if he were a fish; after that the trout or silloch would begin to nibble, according as the boat was on fresh or salt water.
"She told me then," proceeded Reay "that her parents had spent nearly all they had upon her education, in order to fit her for a position as the wife of a rich man and that she would have to do her best to 'catch' that's the way she put it to 'catch' this rich man as soon as she got a good opportunity. He was quite an old man, she said old enough to be her grandfather.
And having turned on her own family and her own class, she seeks to truckle to the People under pretence of serving them, while all the time her sole object is to secure notoriety for herself! She is a shame to England!" "You speak very hotly, sir!" said Helmsley, slowly. "Are you sure of your facts?" "The facts are not concealed," returned Reay "They are public property.
But now there is only one thing for me to do I must get home as quickly as possible and tell Angus" here she pointed to the last paragraph in Helmsley's list of bequests "You see," she went on "he leaves Mary Deane that's me to Angus Reay, 'and with Her all that I value. I am engaged to be married to Mr. Reay David wished very much to live till our wedding-day "
Helmsley raised his hands with a very well acted gesture of timid concern "So bad as all that!" "So bad as all that!" echoed Reay, with a quick sigh; "Or rather so good as all that. I don't know how it has happened, David, but she has quite suddenly become the very life of my work.
"It would it should!" declared Reay "And I'd tell the people the truth of things, I'd expose every financial fraud I could find " "And you'd live in the law-courts, I fear!" said Mr. Bunce, gravely shaking his head "We may be perfectly certain, I think may we not, David? that the law-courts would be Mr. Reay's permanent address?"
I know all sorts of dodges wherewith to satisfy the greedy cravings of the vulgar part of me." Helmsley took his hand from his eyes, and fixed a keenly observant look upon the speaker. Mary said nothing, but her crochet needle moved more slowly. "You see," went on Reay, "I've always been rather fortunate in having had very little to eat." "You call it 'fortunate'?" queried Helmsley, abruptly.
"Why, the names of the principal shareholders in the newspapers," said Reay, placidly "That might possibly open their eyes to the way their opinions are manufactured for them! There's very little 'liberty of the press' in Great Britain nowadays. The press is the property of a few rich men."
Ten days before, the frigate had left Banda, and, impelled upon her course by but the gentlest breezes, had crept slowly northward towards Ternate, where Captain Reay was touching for letters before reporting himself to the Admiral at Singapore. On the quarter-deck a party of officers were standing together looking over the side at the wonders of the coral world, over which the ship was passing.
It was impossible not to derive a sense of fun from his shining eyes and beaming countenance, and Angus Reay gave himself up to the enjoyment of the moment, and laughed again and again. "So you think he's gone altogether, eh?" he said, when he could speak. "Oh, 'e's gone all right!" rejoined Twitt placidly.
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